Roz Chast (Rosalind "Roz" Chast) Quotes
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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One thing any DJ needs in his crate, especially at a barbecue, is a selection of 15-minute-plus jams.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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I always liked No. 10 because I loved Zidane. He was my role model. I always wanted to play like him.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.
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It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.
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You want to hit people's ears to make them want to dance in their kitchen. So that is what a hit is to me.
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Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.
